What a custom checkout changes for your store.
Your storefront stays on Shopify. The step where shoppers pay moves to a page you design. Here is what that means day to day, and what to check before you switch.
Most of your store does not move.
Your storefront and your cart
Shoppers browse, add to cart and use your theme exactly as they do today. One line in your theme sends the Check out button to your Sling page instead of Shopify's checkout. Without that line, nothing on your storefront changes.
Your products and prices
Your Shopify products sync to Sling, and checkout prices come from them. You keep managing the catalogue in Shopify, the way you already do.
Your orders
Every paid order is written back to Shopify, so fulfilment and the apps that read your orders keep working from the same order list. If an order cannot be written automatically, your dashboard flags it and tells you why, so you can create it by hand.
What changes
The page where shoppers pay is yours.
The design
You pick a layout and style every block, colour and word, then preview it at mobile and desktop widths. Your live checkout stays as it is while you work, and nothing reaches shoppers until you publish.
What can sit on the page
Reviews, trust lines, a countdown, an FAQ, order bumps, Subscribe & Save and express wallets can sit next to the pay button, and a one-click offer can follow payment. You choose which ones belong on your page, and where.
The address
The checkout runs on your own checkout domain, so the shopper stays under your brand from the cart to the thank-you page.
Refunds
A refund you press in Shopify admin is forwarded to our payment partner so the money moves, and a refund made on the payment side is mirrored to the Shopify order when the order exists there. You can keep refunding from where you are used to.
Check these before you switch
- Read Shopify's terms on checkout first. The first question below says why.
- List the apps that touch your cart or your checkout button. A checkout override or a post-purchase app that runs on Shopify's checkout has to be turned off or replaced.
- If you use a page builder such as GemPages or Shogun, the line goes into its layouts too.
- Paste the line into a copy of your theme, preview the whole path to checkout, then publish that copy.
- Place a test order in test mode. A checkout in test mode takes no real payment.
- After any theme change, paste the line into the new theme again.
Questions.
Shopify's terms say merchants agree to use Shopify Checkout for any sales associated with their online store and not to work around its limits to process orders outside it. An external checkout like Sling may conflict with those terms, and that risk sits with you as the merchant. Read Shopify's terms before you go live.
No. Your theme, products and cart stay on Shopify. One line in theme.liquid hands the Check out click to your Sling page.
Yes. While we review your store you can connect Shopify, design the checkout, add your domain and run the whole thing end to end in test mode. Real payments wait for what a live store needs: your plan, your payment account, our review, your domain and the confirmed line in your theme.
Take the line out of your published theme and Check out goes to Shopify's checkout again. If you also disconnect your store, your checkout design is kept, so you can reconnect later.